Shawn Lane is often remembered as the shredder who didn't quite make it. The performance in this video suggests that he was doing just fine, thank-you, we simply hadn't caught up yet. Playing with Jonas Helborg and a group of Indian musicians, Lane employs a glissando style most often associated with sarod players, using both bar and finger bends for the gamakas, an early looper, and I suspect a compressor ( I hear a muted click on the pick attack ). Just to put whipped cream on the cherry pie, he quotes some standard jazz changes over the modal form.
No comments:
Post a Comment